• killeronthecorner@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    Urgh, I don’t really have time to do this migration but guess I’m planning it in anyway.

    Past me was a lazy bum. But I’m confident that future me is all over this. Time for a nap.

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      7 hours ago

      Damn you sir, you didn’t need to call me out with that last paragraph.

      No, I know it wasn’t my shoe, but look at how well it fits!

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      30 minutes ago

      Not sure about that. I set up a wg vpn server on a system which then became unresponsive whenever wg was fully saturating the network. Turns out there is apparently no way to throttle or prioritize a wg server, the only way I could think of would be to dedicate a vm to solely the wg vpn and throttle that vm in its networking.
      I instead switched to openvpn which can simply be throttled via a line in its configuration.

      Besides that missing feature, openvpn also doesn’t require figuring out the right iptables commands to verbatim paste into its config as startup and shutdown commands. Setting it up was way easier than wg (though openvpn too wasn’t exactly user-friendly).

      WG to me seems too clunky and unfinished for more mainstream usage, though I am sure it wouldn’t be an issue for a large commercial user like mullvad that will have no issue with all that.

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    11 hours ago

    Because OpenVPN is fiddly to set up and modern Wireguard setups seem to scale well enough.

    • _cryptagion [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 hours ago

      I’m using Bazzite Linux with KDE, and for me Wireguard setup is copy/pasting several bits of information on multiple settings pages. OpenVPN is just downloading a single config file and inputting my user/pass.

      Also, Wireguard disconnects so often, no matter which distro I’m on, that it’s a pain in the butt having to reconnect a few times an hour. Not to mention that I can’t have it set to autoconnect on login, or my internet doesn’t work until I disconnect and reconnect.

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      9 hours ago

      I remember maybe 12-15 years ago, setting OpenVPN on my TomatoUSB flashed router, invoking all kind of openssl command to generate certificates, keys, signing stuff, setting the router, setting the TAP/TUN clients etc. but once setup it works for years on my laptop, phone, etc.

      Now with WG I basically scan on my phone a QR code generated on my Merlin router and that’s it.